In the string department, I started high and ended up low. I held the illustrious chair of “special violin” in my youth orchestra at age…

If instruments are languages, then the piano is my mother tongue. Originally classically-trained, I joined the Dark Side when I found my Dad’s copy of…

According to my grandmother, I made my performance debut at age three, singing “O Danny Boy” to strangers at the doctor’s office. I kept a…